Recent content by Feryll

6BLD, total time of 33:19.11 minutes, with 17:40.29 minutes of memo. After so many narrowly failed sub-30 solves already I was hoping succeeding at at least one of them wouldn't be so difficult, but it's still good to finally beat my record after a dry spell. Hoping to move on to 7BLD soon...

Dang, best 6BLD attempt I've had by a long shot. Even my best failures would've been about ten minutes slower. Memo: 16:25 Execution: 12:45 Total: 29:10 I got too hasty at the very end and misread the odd corner parity. That's the first time something so simple has ruined a big BLD solve.

His memo would have to be pretty off to get that many inner and outer wing pieces off, though. At least six inner wings from what I can see, and four outer. Three corners, too. If there are two more inner wings, four more outer wings, and another corner misplaced on the other sides, I'd be...

Well, quite embarrassing that it took two more weeks to even get my second successful 6BLD solve, but at least it's sub-50! Justin Kelm (USA) Memo: 29:10.19 Execution: 20:34.30 Total: 49:44.49 I plan to hit sub-40 relatively soon, and with any luck I'll catch it on video.

Just had my first 6BLD success! Total time at 1:10.54, with a memo time very close to 50:00. This was a pretty shameful memo even among the failed attempts, so I expect with some effort to push down to 40:00 total time. After that, it's onto 7BLD. :p I'm Justin Kelm, USA.

Is there any utility to being able to "choose" from multiple memo cues for a given target? I use actor-action pair memo for corners and X-centers, and I've more recently started to integrate two to four different possible actions per location, as it helps "involve" me more in making a memorable...

What's a good alg for flipping 4 or more midges on large cubes, only otherwise switching indistinguishable centers?

I'm been interested in big-cube BLD recently, using U2 for all centers and R2/M2 for edges and corners. I've gotten used to making slice moves by holding adjacent slices fixed and only pushing the slice in question, instead of e.g. r2 R2 on a 4x4. I'm doing it this way because it feels safer...

In short, you still use 2 algorithms for the LL, but PLL skip chance is much higher, and if there is no skip, U-perms, H-perms and Z-perms are quick to perform.

Gave me mutant powers. It also escalated my ego to levels that I wish it hadn't.

As if I didn't look naturally depressed while I'm not solving, I look even more emo while solving.

We all know how incredulously fast the celebrity cubers' hands move, and it often times comes up from our friends and family how we're "destroying our wrists" when we show them a solve. How great are the risks involving carpal tunnel and arthritis in the future years? One would think that with...

There are the people one on side who have their advantages from having it banned and thus spread propaganda to get you to fear it, and then there are those who want you to start puffing a joint so they can get it legalized; I believe the truth lies somewhere in the middle, no pun intended.

Where is a good text guide for 4bld r2? Actually, I just need some good algorithms for the r and l slices. I remember an old site that had what what I was looking for, but that was so many months ago.

Even in such a cuber saturated atmosphere such as a competition, I still get weird looks when I tell people about 4bld and 3bld and the number of algs I know.